How to format your references using the Journal of Colloid And Interface Science citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Colloid And Interface Science. For a complete guide how to prepare your manuscript refer to the journal's instructions to authors.

Using reference management software

Typically you don't format your citations and bibliography by hand. The easiest way is to use a reference manager:

Paperpile	The citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNote	Download the output style file
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and others	The style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeX	BibTeX syles are usually part of a LaTeX template. Check the instructions to authors if the publisher offers a LaTeX template for this journal.

Journal articles

Those examples are references to articles in scholarly journals and how they are supposed to appear in your bibliography.

Not all journals organize their published articles in volumes and issues, so these fields are optional. Some electronic journals do not provide a page range, but instead list an article identifier. In a case like this it's safe to use the article identifier instead of the page range.

A journal article with 1 author

[1]

D. Yeomans, Small bodies of the Solar System, Nature 404 (2000) 829–832.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

J.D. Berndt, R.T. Moon, Cell biology. Making a point with Wnt signals, Science 339 (2013) 1388–1389.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

M. Matzke, A.J. Matzke, J.M. Kooter, RNA: guiding gene silencing, Science 293 (2001) 1080–1083.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

H. Kraack, B.M. Ocko, P.S. Pershan, E. Sloutskin, M. Deutsch, Structure of a Langmuir film on a liquid metal surface, Science 298 (2002) 1404–1407.

Books and book chapters

Here are examples of references for authored and edited books as well as book chapters.

An authored book

[1]

P. Ciana, New Frontiers in Technical Analysis, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2011.

An edited book

[1]

A. Agrawal, Biomonitoring of Water and Waste Water, Springer India, New Delhi, 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

R. Ribes, P. Iannarelli, R.F. Duarte, Writing Scientific Correspondence, in: P. Iannarelli, R.F. Duarte (Eds.), English for Biomedical Scientists, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2009: pp. 96–107.

Web sites

Sometimes references to web sites should appear directly in the text rather than in the bibliography. Refer to the Instructions to authors for Journal of Colloid And Interface Science.

Blog post

[1]

A. Carpineti, There Are 2 Trillion Galaxies In The Visible Universe, According To The Latest Count, IFLScience (2016). https://www.iflscience.com/space/there-are-2-trillion-galaxies-in-the-visible-universe-according-to-the-latest-count/ (accessed October 30, 2018).

Reports

This example shows the general structure used for government reports, technical reports, and scientific reports. If you can't locate the report number then it might be better to cite the report as a book. For reports it is usually not individual people that are credited as authors, but a governmental department or agency like "U. S. Food and Drug Administration" or "National Cancer Institute".

Government report

[1]

Government Accountability Office, Federal Student Loans: Impact of Loan Limit Increases on College Prices Is Difficult to Discern, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2014.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

T.J. Sullivan, Molecular Ecology, Disease Ecology, and Candidate Genes for Pathogen Resistance in the Blue Crab Callinectes sapidus, Doctoral dissertation, University of Louisiana, 2017.

News paper articles

Unlike scholarly journals, news papers do not usually have a volume and issue number. Instead, the full date and page number is required for a correct reference.

New York Times article

[1]

L. Himelstein, Like a Tupperware Party, With Punching, New York Times (2012) E5.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [1].
This sentence cites two references [1,2].
This sentence cites four references [1–4].

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Colloid And Interface Science
Abbreviation	J. Colloid Interface Sci.
ISSN (print)	0021-9797
Scope	Colloid and Surface Chemistry Biomaterials Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials Surfaces, Coatings and Films